Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.